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Okay, I will look on the boards, It's a lot, but looking at what it comes with, it looks really good.
Age wise, my daughter is turning 4 in a month, she is begging to start school. She is working through OPGTR and is begging to start school. He writing isn't very good, but verbally she is great. I was leaning towards this program as it didn't seem like it has lots of writing. It looks activity based. Am I being unrealistic, or is this a good program to start math with?
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I did try a search, but got bogged down.
I am thinking of getting Right start Math for my dd, and I was wondering if there was a time of year that it usually goes on sale.
Thank you
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this one is good. Donna Young has forms for almost everything
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We are only half way through the traditional school year. It feels like the year is almost done, but it's not. Feb, March, April, May, and first bit of June. That is over 4 months left of a 9 month year.
As for getting stuff done, I find that it works better if I cram most of it into 2 days. Monday and Thursday are our big school days. dh is in charge of sorting out dinner and such. We spend about 6 hours doing school on those days.(with lots of 5 min breaks to run a lap around the back yard, have a snack etc...) Then the other five days we only do 30-90min of seated focus work. We go out to activities, clean the house, play and be silly. I don't know if that would work where you just tell dh, fine, but these 2 days are mine and we are getting work done.
Nicole
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You should at least have your husband ask VERY PUBLICLY, for the hospital to match all the donated hours that they asked their employees to donate.
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We are doing it mostly with just the adventures book, like how SWB set it out in TWTM. My ds has big problems with writing, so we look up the definations and read them together, but I write them down for him. He then does the experiment and does that writing and draws a picture.
I wish I had just bought the student text and not the bundle from RSK. The labs in adventures, are more than enough, really well explained, and there are just plain old more of them.
The DK book, we look at for the pictures, and just read bits of it and talk about all the amazing things they can do with chemistry. I figure it will last until we do chemistry again and then he will get more out of it.
I am lucky as my husband is a chemist, so we get to go to his lab a few times a year and we do other experiments. Tomorrow we are going to do this
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I was thinking the same thing and did buy RSK. I wish I hadn't wasted my money. IMO it does not really add anything to adventures. Adventures is much more thorough. However I got the DK Eyewitness book on chemistry and that has been a nice supplement.
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My best friend comes over in the morning once a week. Things are hard for her so I pay her $50 a week. She does cleaning while she is here( whole house every other week and kitchen weekly), and my son stays home with her and works on his independent work while I take my younger daughter to gymnastics and swimming. IT is win win for both of us. I don't have to do the big choirs that I don't like, and she has some extra money.
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Thank you. I think I am doing something wrong when i search. If I put it as "first form latin" I got no results. If I don't put the quotes I get everything that has first or form or latin in it. I am not tech savvy.
I think as it is so new, not many people have used it first. On the Memoria Press site, it looks like they want people to use first form if they are going to keep going with latin, and Latina Christian 2 if you will be ending afterwards.
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We are doing Latina Christian 1 this year, and it looks like we can either go into number 2 or to First form latin. Has anyone used these?
Nicole
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We pulled out after 2nd grade, this whole year has been very relaxed for us. Focus on trying to have her gaps closed by the end of fourth grade (WTM). We have lots of holes and gaps, they are closing slowly over time, but it will take time.
Also, one thing I had to keep reminding myself. This is (probably) the only time that you will both be using 100% new curriculum. After this year you will probably only change 1 or 2 things at a time, not everything. So, it will get easier. But I had to keep reminding myself that it was all new to my son too. Different curriculum use different languages.
Good Luck, and have fun.
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Jessa,
Just wanted to let you know that I was horrible at Chemistry, it used to give me nightmares in high school. I think that is why I am enjoying it so much. It is so straight forward that even I get it, and I like it.
Math and chemistry were my 2 big fears going into homeschool. I am pleasantly surprised at how much I am learning and understanding myself. If you go that route and have any questions, pm me.
Nicole
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Have you read the WTM on the science section? Cheap and pretty easy to use. Do a four year cycle of Earth and space, Biology, Chemistry, and physics. All the elective type of science things can be done in college if they are into science. Just work on the basics. I don't know about the physics yet, we are doing that next year. Chemistry is great, and you could do it with all of your kids together.
So you need adventures in atoms and molecules $8.95 at amazon and the Usborne science encyclopedia (about $20)
You read your chapter, have the kids use the encyclopedia to write the definitions of the words in bold, have them do the experiment, then write out these questions with answers
What did we use?
What did we do?
What happened?
What did we learn?
You can use things from around the kitchen, but I spent some extra money on this (about $40). It has been fun for the kids using beakers and test tubes. My son is younger so we do the the definition part out loud. My husband is a PhD research chemist, and he is amazed at what our 8 year old is learning. He says this is going to set him up really well for high school.
Hope that helps
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One thing with the creative writing at that age, it is one of the big reasons that we left school. Journal ling and creative writing for a large part is busy work at this age. You might get one or two kids who like it, but the rest are being frustrated and learning to dislike writing, this was what happened to my son. He used to (and luckily does again) come up with these fantastic stories, but he did not have the tools developed to write them down, and he just sorted stopped.
We follow WWE and it has been a lifesaver. He is writing again, and it is improving every week. He has started with his stories again. He narrates them to me. I help him with sentence structure, not rambling etc... At the beginning of the year I wrote them into our little books, and he illustrated. Now, we do it as copy work. He narrates to me and I write it out neatly. He then copies it into his book and illustrates. For us, that really helped.
Sorry, I have rambled. What I am saying, is see how your daughter goes, if she likes writing it herself, GREAT!. If you are finding that her wonderful elaborate stories are just not getting to the paper, and she isn't liking it, have her narrate her story to you. It is still your daughter's creative side being expressed, even if it is in your writing.
Nicole
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Honestly, science is now our least academic subject. I was re-reading the well trained mind, and science is pretty low on the list of the things that need to get done. My husband is a research chemist, he told just to make sure ds enjoys science. So we read through our chapter together, look up the definitions and read those together. No writing so far. Then we do our experiment and have fun with it. After we write the title and draw a picture. Really low key and low stress. Lots of FUN!!!!
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Okay, I will check that the pirate rooms are in the preferred area, if not I will go with preferred over pirate at the Caribbean. That is good to know about the French quarter. The only thing that made me lean toward the riverside was that it said it had 6 pools instead of one. I thought the pools would be less crowded. How is the pool at the French Quarter?
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So my dd is 3, she will be 4 in April. She really wants to DO school with us. I have been using the odd workbook and we read and sing LOTS, but she wants more. I could spend an hour a day with her on something, but I don't really have the time to put together something myself (this is our first year homeschooling and my mental energy is going towards ds and just figuring this whole lifestyle out). So, maybe I should get clavert pre k with her now if it is the easier of the 2, then sonlight 4/5 after she finishes that? That way she would have something that is hers, and would hopefully be enough for her.
Thank you for the help
Nicole
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So, 2 more questions. At the Caribbean are the pirate themed rooms that are $20 nearer to the pool and such? Also, do we need to worry about size at the riverside, or is it a smaller resort?
Thanks so much, this is helping me get ready to book
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We are going to Orlando the beginning of April. I am going early with the kids and I was thinking I would stay at the Caribbean resort (for 3 nights), then we are going to Universal for 2 nights, not sure which of the three resorts we will stay in (we want to make use of the skip to the front of the line as that will be Friday and Saturday) Then my mom and hubby are joining us and we are going back to Disney. I was thinking that the riverside looked fun, but a little more grown up for my mom. Any opinions, advice, or things I need to consider with those picks?
Cheers,
Nicole
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I was panicking myself feeling like the school year was almost over and we were not even close to the half way point. Then I realized that in traditional school they have a 9 month school year, and we still have 5 months left. I was feeling like I had failed as I thought the school year was almost over, we are not even at the half way point yet. We have only managed 1 science experiment so far and are on chapter 7 in the SOTW. Oh well, it's part of why we homeschool.
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I like the look of both programs and I am trying to decide which to try with dd next year. I have read lots of positive things about both programs. I would like to find out pros and cons, and how they differ from people who have used BOTH. (I am not meaning to be a brat, but I don't want to here how much you love your program if you have not also tried the other). My dd will be in PreK next year and I think that is a great trial year as preK seems the least expensive for the most part.
Thank you
Nicole
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Gone with the Wind
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What style of writing has your child been doing, Manuscript or italic? My 3rd grader had really bad handwriting, he had been doing manuscript. Someone told me to switch him to italics and it has been a dream. I did some research into it, I don't fully understand the why and how. I guess manuscript and italic use different parts of the brain, and for some kids the manuscript (or cursive) just does not fully compute. Anyway, we have been using Getty-Dubay italics for about 8 months now and I am really happy with it. We are still working on the print side of things, we will probably start cursive in the summer (after he has had a year with print)
WHEN do you start Latin?
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We were going to start early with Prima Latina, but we waited and started with Latina Christiana 1 this year. It is going well, and we like it (ds is 8) My dd(four next month) will sometimes watch the DVD with him, but she is not interested yet. I am planning on starting her in 1st or 2nd grade if she asks, 3rd if she doesn't.
What we did with the younger ages was Muzzy Spanish. We just watched the DVD's and kept it really casual.